Fruit-jar gripper.



No. 668,700. Patented Feb. 26, l90l.'

A. WERNER. FRUIT JAB GBIPPER. (Application filed Aug. 20, 1900.)

(No Model.)

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPH WERNER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

FRUIT-JAR GRIPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,700, dated February.26, 1901. Application filed August 20,1900. Serial No- 21,388. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPH WERNER, a citizen of the UnitedtStates, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new parts hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure l of the drawings represents a plan View of one form of tool-in accordance with my invention, partly in section; and Figs. 2 and 3, sectional views of the same,respectively indicated by lines 2 2 and 3 3 in the first figure of the series.

Referring by letter to the drawings, I show an annular band A, made from a strip of fiat metal, the ends of the band being lapped one upon the other.

' outward, as shown at b, and provided with a tongue 0, as well as a longitudinal slot d,the tongue and slot being for the engagement of a rack-edge fin B on the other end of said band lengthwise of the same.

A housing 0 is preferably employed in connection with the band A to cover the tongue 0, slot (1-, and so much of the rack-fin as may One end of the band is bent be engaged therewith, and handles D are made fast on tangs that extend from said housing and rack-fin. The band A is expanded or contracted to fit on fruit-jars of various diameters, and being positioned on a jar itis automatically locked in place by the engagement of the tongue 0 with the rack-fin B. Hence the operator does not have to exert constant pressure on the handles D of the tool.

If the annular portion of the herein-described tool be made from a round or partlyround strip of metal, said tool may be utilized tomanipulate screw-caps of the fruit-jars. It is also possible to otherwise vary the detail of the tool without departure from my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is A tool comprising a metallic annular device the ends of which lap each other, one of these ends being provided with a tongue and a longitudinal slot, a housing over the slot and tongue, a rack-fin on the other end of the annular device engageable with said tongue and slot, and handles in connection with said housing and fin.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wiscousin, in the presence of two witnesses.

ADOLPH WERNER.

Witnesses:

N. E. OLIPHANT, B. O. ROLOFF. 

